Opera 9 beta

[Norphy]

Given the lack of a general software forum, I thought I'd post this here. Opera released an official beta of version 9 today. This browser is superb. Opera is what weaned me off Internet Explorer in the first place and now I think its going to get me off Firefox now as well. I seriously suggest you download it and give it a try

[eejit]

What do you like about it so much?

Firefox can be slow to open because of the extensions, but it's those very extensions that will keep me with it, I believe.

[Norphy]

What do I like about it?

 

Extremely fast

Very good mail client

news reader

rss reader

mouse gestures

Fantastic content blocker (read ad blocker )

Excellent popup blocker (much better than firefox's)

Good password management

Ability to spoof other browsers

Integrated spell checker

Small memory footprint

Small install

Silly konfabulator style widgets

integrate bittorrent client

The thumbnail preview that you get when you hover your mouse over tabs is quite neat too. Not to mention that it scores a perfect result in the acid test

 

OK, most of these features can be added to FF by the way of extensions (which incidentally I always did). However why bother when Opera does it all out of the box?

[CyberNerd]

to add to the list:

 

Its really easy to lock down,

the silly widgets are great - check pandora

opera talks to me - it reads web pages if I can't be bothered(windows only)

 

I mostly use 50/50 opera/firefox depending on what I'm doing - they both are great

[Netman]

I've been using Opera for a few months now (once they decided it would be free again!) and it has completely taken over from IE / FF which I used 50 / 50 before... the only thing I use IE for now is accessing Sharepoint. IMHO best browser by quite some way & highly recommended...

[SpuffMonkey]

I've been using Opera for a few months now (once they decided it would be free again!) and it has completely taken over from IE / FF which I used 50 / 50 before... the only thing I use IE for now is accessing Sharepoint. IMHO best browser by quite some way & highly recommended...

 

Ditto

[SpuffMonkey]

opera talks to me - it reads web pages if I can't be bothered(windows only)

 

Thats interesting - how d'yer do that then - I'm interested as I'm a volunteer for the RNIB - I didn't realise it had that facility.

[CyberNerd]

opera talks to me - it reads web pages if I can't be bothered(windows only)

 

 

Thats interesting - how d'yer do that then - I'm interested as I'm a volunteer for the RNIB - I didn't realise it had that facility.

 

http://www.opera.com/voice/